More than 50 people were attending the house party when the dispute involving the victim began.

Samuel Frejuste (left) and Chad Vaughn (right) appear at the Middlesesex County Courthouse during a hearing on July 30.Star-Ledger file photo

SAYREVILLE – A fourth man has been charged in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old South Amboy man who was killed during a dispute at a house party earlier this year.

Tarique S. Holmes, 21, of Bayonne is charged with conspiring to murder Randal Teron Smith, 20, of South Amboy, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Smith was killed on July 21.

Holmes was arrested last week. He’s being held at the Middlesex County jail in North Brunswick on $1.6 million bail.

Holmes had been arrested and charged on Oct. 3 with possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a weapon used in the fatal shooting.

Samuel Frejuste of Sayreville, Chad Vaughn of South Amboy and Emery Baskerville of Bayonne, all 20 years old, were charged on July 27 with the murder conspiracy count.

They also have been charged with hindering their apprehension by lying to police during the investigation into the shooting of the victim, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Vaughn and Frejuste are each being held at the county correction center on $749,000 bail.

Baskerville is being held at the county facility on $1.5 million bail.

The investigation began after police received a call at 2:23 a.m. on July 21, 2012, alerting them to the shooting during the party at 11 Greenhill Ave. in Sayreville.

When police arrived, the victim was found on a neighbor's lawn. He was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where he was pronounced dead at 3:28 a.m.

More than 50 people were attending the house party when the dispute involving the victim began. People at the party began fleeing when an undisclosed number of shots were fired. The victim was outside the house when he was shot.

The victim was a student at Middlesex County College in Edison and worked at Panera Bread in Piscataway, according to the DailyRecord.com. He played basketball at South Amboy Middle High School, according to the website.

More than a hundred people attended his funeral, which was held in Somerset County.

The investigation is continuing. Anyone with information is asked to call Investigator Villegas of the prosecutor's office at 732-745-3300, or Detective Belotti of the Sayreville Police Department at 732-525-5413.